Documenter l’état des capacités des ressources humaines gérant la chaîne d’approvisionnement et les efforts de professionnalisation des chaînes d’approvisionnement sanitaire publiques.

This toolkit is a collection of adaptable resources for supply chain staff and supervisors that enables them to practice performance management processes and identify approaches for addressing performance management issues in their organisations. The purpose of this toolkit is, therefore, to help HSCM organisations to set out an approach to managing the performance of supply chain staff if they plan to develop a new performance management system.

Without access to and appropriate use of quality medicines and health commodities, health systems lose their ability to meet the treatment and prevention needs of the patients and clients they serve.

The organization of an integrated Ministry of Health (MoH) pharmaceutical and commodity supply management system (known as SUGEMI, by the Spanish acronym) in Dominican Republic demanded an innovative training strategy for immediate implementation and long-term sustainability.

Namibia is faced with one of the most severe health workforce shortages in the world, including a shortage of supply chain personnel to manage the key institutions of the public health supply chain, the Central Medical Store (CMS) and Regional Medical Store (RMS). As Namibia is a focus country for People that Deliver (PtD), a global initiative focused on raising awareness of human resource (HR) challenges for supply chain management (SCM), the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) requested the Initiative’s assistance in tackling its supply chain human resource challenges.

This toolkit forms part of the Country support package for Immunization Supply Chain Managers (iSCMs) as part of the implementation of the GAVI Alliance supply chain strategy and is designed to support anyone involved in change, especially those leading and managing initiatives with a focus on changing organizational behaviours. Many of the supply change initiatives outlined in the GAVI supply chain strategy and in EVM and other improvement plans will result in the introduction of new systems, processes and technology. In order for these changes to be sustainable it will also require a corresponding change in ways of working, behaviours and ultimately the culture of the organization.

Updates on the status of the year one Implementation of the Supply Chain Master Plan of Liberia.

The methodology for this assessment is based on the USAID HR for SCM Theory of Change.

A well-trained, professional workforce is the foundation of any health system. Because of this, in 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) included workforce performance as one of six building blocks in its health system framework needed to strengthen health systems. Similarly, ensuring the continuous availability of commodities is a critical element of a well-functioning public health system if it is to provide health workers and customers with vital public health products. To ensure commodity security (CS), a supply chain must engage the right people, in the right quantities, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time to follow the procedures that direct supply chain operations and ensure the supply of health products. An undisputed requirement of supply chain human resource (HR) strengthening is high-level champions. Toward this end, it has become increasingly apparent to the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT that our HR work must ask for input and support from supply chain managers at the highest level (Proper 2014).

Many health programmes rely heavily on rational management of essential medicines and medical supplies. Over the years, the range and volume of medicines and medical supplies supported has increased, particularly in the scale-up of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria treatments.